Studies are beginning for a key Measure M project to convert the HOV lanes to ExpressLanes on the 105 freeway for 15.7 miles between the 405 and the 605 freeways. The studies will be looking at the impact of making that change. The ExpressLanes on the 10 and 110 freeways [continue reading]
Photos: Juan Ocampo/Metro Metro and Caltrans officials held a ribbon-cutting celebration for the completion of the I-605 Freeway Soundwall Project in the City of Whittier earlier today. Metro funded the entire $14 million cost of the I-605 Freeway Soundwall Project. This project consists of approximately three miles of soundwalls along [continue reading]
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Caltrans and Metro on Thursday morning officially dedicated 2.2 miles of HOV lanes in both directions on the 10 freeway between the 605 freeway and Puente Avenue in Baldwin Park. The lanes cost $180 million. “As the transportation funding authority for Los Angeles County, Metro programmed $192 million for completion [continue reading]
This week’s closures on the I-10/I-605 per Caltrans: The California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) will close portions of the connector road from the southbound San Gabriel River Freeway (I-605) to the eastbound San Bernardino Freeway (I-10) as part of the Interchange Improvement Project. The following schedule will be in effect, [continue reading]
The project that broke ground this morning will widen the 5 freeway for 1.2 miles between Shoemaker and Silverbow avenues by adding a general purpose lane and HOV lane in both directions. The project will also widen three bridges over the freeway — at Shoemaker, Rosecrans and Bloomfield. Metro is [continue reading]
Caltrans and Metro announced Monday that construction will begin on the I-5 Widening and Alondra Boulevard Bridge Project, the second segment of the I-5 South Corridor Improvement Project that runs from the Los Angeles/Orange County Line to the I-605. Last fall, Caltrans began the first of six I-5 corridor improvement projects totaling more [continue reading]
Metro Directors Don Knabe and Diane DuBois, along with other Metro, Caltrans and CHP officials broke ground Thursday on a $14-million sound wall project along the 605 freeway in the city of Whittier and unincorporated county. The project consists of approximately three miles of sound walls on both sides of [continue reading]
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gn_Cvy-bj-k[/youtube] If you’re watching this at work, consider this an “earphones” alert. The video is from the band “It’s Casual” and the song is called “The Red Line” and is decidedly pro-transit. In an email, front-man Eddie Solis wrote the song is non-fiction account of a working professional who chooses [continue reading]
